Written by: Lucas Wu (Class of 2025)

Translated by: Wong Soong Way (Class of 2023)

Media by: Mrs.Lau, Jason Chiem (Class of 2025), and Luca Wang (Class of 2027)

Photos arranged by: Luca Wang (Class of 2027)

趁时光未老,一切都刚好

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时光荏冉，回首往昔已经记不清这是离开您的第几年了。在这些光阴里我切身体会了您曾经反复叮

嘱的那个复杂的世界。小心地处理着腹有鳞甲的社会关系，把那张即将透支的账单来回地打量着，

还有那夜阑更深时即使再困也烛光通亮的书房。就这样每天循规蹈矩的上演着相同的场景，

似乎过去的那个少年已经变得足够坚强。

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但每每走在马路旁瞅见那小孩的母亲习惯性地牵起男孩的手跨过斑马线时，每当俯身捡起那不经意

间滑落在地的全家福时，终于泫然的泪珠还是从眼眶里滚落了下来。旧时的记忆总是在生活各处

朝花夕拾。仿佛时间又回到了那晚母亲倚靠在床头疲憊地给我讲述着那有意思的睡前故事

直到我进入梦乡，仿佛她又在着急的叮咛着我上学快要迟到那啼笑皆非的样子，然后又到了

那最后分离时她坚决的挥动着手臂笑着跟我道别而后又马上转身蹲下无助的抽泣,

那些难以言喻的场景仿佛历历在目。

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我知道时间真的很残忍，它不仅在您的脸上留下了岁月的痕迹，您辛苦拉扯的孩子也匆匆长大

离你而去。但是我坚信少年毅然的离去必会有所收获，归来时也定能不负所望。

愿时间光不老，归来时一切也刚好。

母亲节快乐，我爱您。

～您永远的那个男孩

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While time is still young, Everything will be just fine

As time passed, I can’t remember how many years it had been since I left you. During these years, I have experienced the complexities of the world you have always been trying to warn and tell me about. The careful handling of social relations filled with pricks and thorns, the calculating and recalculating of expenses, the worrying about the almost overdue check, and the many dreary nights spent in the still brightly lit study even though it’s way past bedtime-all these affairs, repeated day after day, it seems that the youth many years past has grown strong and resilient.

But whenever I walk by the roadside and see a child’s mother habitually holding the boy’s hand while crossing the crosswalk, whenever I lean down to pick up the family portrait that had inadvertently slipped to the ground, tears welling in my eyes start to fall. Old memories of the past always seem to find themselves in the most ordinary places. It is as if time had somehow reverted to that night when Mother, you had tiredly told me bedtime stories that gradually and gently coaxed me into slumberland. It is as if time had somehow reverted to the day you reminded me about almost being late for school and the wanting-to-cry-yet-also-wanting-to-laugh expression you wore on your face. It is as if time had somehow reverted to the day we bid farewell: the firm and resolved waving of your hands to the instant turning of your back to a squatting position as tears flowed uncontrollably. All these instances, hard to put into words, are etched in my mind, clear and vivid as if just happened.

I know that time is really cruel, not only has it left traces of age on your face, the children you have worked so hard to bring up have also grown up and left you in a hurry. But I firmly believe that the young man who left with determination will definitely succeed and be able to live up to his expectations. So may time never grow old and everything be just right when I return.

Happy Mother’s Day, I love you.

～Your son and boy always

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Thank you to Mrs. Lau for the food!